GRETCHEN Molannen, whose permanent sexual arousal condition forced her to masturbate for hours on end achieving as many as 50 multiple orgasms per night, has been found dead.

The 39-year-old was found dead in her home in Spring Hill, Florida, from an apparent suicide, only days after a feature on her persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) appeared in the Tampa Bay Times.

She had said: “I had such a different life before this thing, this beast, took over. I was terrified, I couldn't get unaroused.

“I used to love life but this has destroyed it. This isn't living, so what's the point?”

She had suffered from for more than a decade-and-a-half.

The condition means the afflicted are physically but not psychologically aroused and can often only find relief after masturbating for hours upon end.

A woman who suffered from a debilitating condition where she had constant, uncontrollable orgasms has committed suicide after years of battling her affliction.

It is unclear how or when the 39-year-old died. The Hernando County Sheriff’s office responded to a suicide call on Saturday night and two of her friends confirmed it.

One of the only forms of relief came from masturbating for hours on end, something that Ms Molannen, a Lutheran, found as a point of shame.

Though she had aspirations of working as a translator as she is fluent in French, German and Spanish, her condition meant that she had to take odd jobs, because she had to deal with the physical demands of PGAD.

But, having to relieve herself almost constantly, she stopped working in 1999 and started spending most of the time in her bedroom with her vibrator.

'I was terrified,' she said. 'I couldn't get unaroused. I didn't know what to do.'

Her distress over the condition made her attempt suicide three times in the past year.

Her worst day, she said, was when she had 50 uncontrolled orgasms in a row.

"It made me think I was going to die,’ she told the newspaper. 'That was the worst day.'